Want to be sure word of your VBS reaches the unchurched children--and parents--of your community? Consider the following promotion ideas other churches have found to be successful:

• Take advantage of free announcements in your local newspaper (try the Community Calendar or Religion sections)

• Inform child care centers

• Use grocery store bulletin boards

• Tack up postings at local parks or swimming pools

• Display yard signs

• Send direct mail to families who live around your church

• Distribute fliers in apartment complexes, trailer parks and neighborhoods

• Hold a series of backyard Bible clubs in the weeks leading up to your VBS, and invite those who attend

• Let Sunday school children decorate paper shopping bags to announce the VBS, and ask local grocery stores to distribute them to customers

• Send invitations to church prospect lists

• Use magnetic car signs

• Imprint wrist bands for children and youth to wear and give away

• Conduct a telephone blitz

• Sponsor a poster contest and place winning entries at local businesses

• Post announcements in civic club newsletters

Be sure that all of your promotions clearly state the times, location and how to get further information about your Vacation Bible School.

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